Personal ramblings of Elizabeth Andrews Fae artist and author of 'Faeries and Folklore of the British Isles,' 'Faerie Flora'and the 'The Lavender Witch' all available from
www.magic-myth-legend.co.uk and Amazon

Sunday, 10 February 2013

There is an old tale in Cornwall of a failed faerie snatch, it happened in a remote

moorland cottage near Towednack. The mother's name was Betty Stogs; she lived

there with her husband and six month old baby. She was a slovenly neglectful mother

and would leave the baby alone all day in the cottage with just a cat for company.

Her neighbours angrily asked her why she didn't look after the baby better as the

child was getting so dirty but she just replied that the moor was a cold place and a

good layer of dirt kept it warm. One night after being away all day Betty returned

home to find the baby and the cat gone, she and her husband searched the cottage

and then started to search the cold moor but they could find no sign of the child

or the cat. Betty resumed her search the next morning and as she was walking over a

nearby tor spotted the cat in the distance. She hurried after the animal and followed

it into a furze bush where she discovered a bundle of old fashioned chintz, inside was

the baby fast asleep. It was dressed in beautiful silk clothes and scented with sweet

herbs, it's own rags were nowhere to be seen and for the first time it was clean.

When her neighbours heard this declared that the baby had been taken by the faeries

to take back to the faerie realm. However it must have taken them so long to clean it's

filthy little body that they ran out of time before the sun rose and left it hidden in

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Hi I am a artist and author Elizabeth Andrews, and I love all things Faerie. My work can be found at www.magic-myth-legend.co.uk where if you wish you can purchase cards and prints of all things magical from Faerie to Mermaids and even Dragons!
This interest has become an obsession over the last ten year resulting in a fully illustrated book detailing Faerie and Folklore around the British Isles. I hope that if you, like me, are a 'Faerie nut' that you will enjoy this blog as I comment on any faerie activity around the British Isles. However I do find myself adding more and more quirky items on folkLore so I apologise but I find them so fascinating and funny!!